What They're Looking For
City: Eramosa, Erin, Guelph, Halton Hills, Mapleton, or Puslinch
Volunteer Experience
About Scholarship
Dr. Ethel Chapman was born in 1888 to a Halton County farm family near Campbellville, just five miles from the rural public school where she would begin her teaching career. The building is now in a place of honour in the County Heritage Park, Milton, as an example of a Women’s Institute Hall.
No one, on the day of her birth, could have predicted that in her long lifetime, she would become a teacher, a government home economist, Editor of the Federated Women’s Institute of Ontario quarterly magazine, “Home & Country”, author of five novels and numerous papers and that among many other honours, she would become an inductee into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame. As a role model to generations of girls and young women throughout the province, she stressed the importance of education that would prepare them for future careers.
In 1966, in one of its first convocations with full university status, the University of Guelph conferred upon Ethel Chapman the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. Dr. Chapman was loved and respected as a leader, a mentor and a friend.
About Company
Branch of the Federated Womens Institutes of Ontario serving Georgetown, Milton and the surrounding area.
* assists and encourages women to become more knowledgeable and responsible citizens.
* promotes and develops good family life skills
* helps discover, stimulate and develop leadership
* helps identify and resolve needs in the community